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title: Nehemiah 6:15 (JPS 1917) — So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month El… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. Nehemiah 6:15 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nehemiah 6:15 · JPS 1917

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So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

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**What happens:** finish · **To what, where:** wall

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This is Nehemiah 6:15 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:NEH:138
# text = So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	NumType=Ord	8	conj	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Elul	Elul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · passive |  | the wall |  |  | day |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וַתִּשְׁלַם֙ הַֽחוֹמָ֔ה בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לֶאֱל֑וּל לַחֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנַ֖יִם יֽוֹם׃פ

[Nehemiah 6:15: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.15/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:NEH:138` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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